AWITTGABAGIWOBAFOAP Chapter 49
by Volare“I want him.” Song Ningwan looked at the delirious Xie Xiaoyu and spoke indifferently.
Because through mind-reading, he saw the secret hidden within Xie Xiaoyu.
How interesting.
The team leader heard Song Ningwan’s purposeful request and directly refused, “No way.”
Seeming to think his tone was too harsh and impolite, he changed his wording: “We shouldn’t trouble a senior. We can leave on our own. Let’s go.”
“I…I want to stay.” This time, it was Xie Xiaoyu who spoke. He vaguely heard the conversation and realized his weakened physical condition, his expression stiffening.
The team leader frowned. What was wrong with these two teammates? Why did they both want to stay?
Xie Xiaoyu used the support of Big Cat to stand up again, staring at Song Ningwan with a resentful gaze. “Don’t try to dissuade me. I want to stay.” Then, he slowly walked to the team leader, exchanging glances for a long time, finally making the usually unyielding team leader compromise.
The team leader looked troubled. “Are you sure you want to stay?”
Xie Xiaoyu nodded slowly, still unable to stand steadily, and could only be helped up by the team leader.
His physical condition, as if he would fall over with a gust of wind, was hardly convincing.
But Big Cat selflessly stepped forward to help Xie Xiaoyu, saying, “Team leader, he wouldn’t do something he’s not confident in. We have to believe him.”
Xie Xiaoyu nodded, his gaze towards Song Ningwan still unfriendly, as if he was about to retort at any moment.
The team leader ultimately decided to respect his choice. “Alright, we’ll go back to the Research Institute to report first and contact you later. If you encounter any danger, I’ll come up to find you. Remember, don’t try to be a hero, and…listen to the senior’s advice, understand?”
Xie Xiaoyu clicked his tongue, his voice lukewarm. “Oh, I know. Hurry up and go back.”
Song Ningwan didn’t say anything, first sending Xie Xiaoyu to a healing pod to recover.
At the moment their eyes met, Xie Xiaoyu looked away first, suddenly scoffing, “What exactly is your purpose? If you’re looking for someone familiar with the wastelands, you’re probably going to be disappointed. This is our team’s first time on the surface, and we’re already trapped in the Nukaar ruins and can’t leave. But if you want to use me…although I’m an A-class Mechanical Engineer, your spirit is obviously stronger than mine, so why bother?”
Song Ningwan was taken aback, looking at him intently. “What do you think I want to do?”
“I don’t care what you want to do, but if you dare to touch the team leader and Big Cat, I’ll make sure we all go down together!” Xie Xiaoyu said fiercely, but due to his weakness, he couldn’t help but cough.
Song Ningwan became interested. “What if I wanted to kill you? Aren’t you afraid of death?”
“Why should I be afraid? I’ve never found death frightening. Isn’t death inevitable for all humans?” Xie Xiaoyu snorted and silently entered the healing pod to heal himself.
Song Ningwan didn’t say anything. He left Xie Xiaoyu in the mech and led the remaining two away.
Walking out of 001, when their skin was exposed to the wasteland air, they faintly felt a stinging sensation caused by the dryness of the air.
Swarms of mechanical blue butterflies, like a giant net, covered the sky, scattering a pale blue powdery substance.
“So many mechanical blue butterflies. We can’t find a gap to rush out.” The team leader secretly lamented, but faced with the unknown risk, he didn’t panic. Instead, he thought about how to maximize their chances of survival.
Using spirit, he could feel that the sky full of mechanical blue butterflies were releasing a kind of radioactive substance to confuse humans.
Song Ningwan looked up. The mechanical blue butterflies seemed to be affected by some kind of magnetic force, surrounding 001 so densely that no air could pass through.
The team leader suggested, “Use the sterilizing gun to open a gap and then rush out.”
Big Cat subconsciously obeyed the team leader’s orders, but Song Ningwan interrupted.
“No need. Let me handle it.” The terrifying spirit of an SSS-class Expert could clear all obstacles.
The low-level mechanical blue butterflies had no intelligence and could only attack through their inherent will, paralyzing their prey and absorbing nutrients to survive.
Song Ningwan’s will stirred slightly, and a gale instantly rose, the violent wind causing yellow sand to sweep across the sky.
When the tidal wave of spirit crushed the mechanical blue butterflies, the lifeforms flying in the air instantly turned into dead things, the blue butterflies falling downwards, like a rain of butterflies, beautiful and elegant to the extreme.
The team leader hadn’t recovered from the shock, opening his mouth but not knowing what to say.
How powerful must one’s spirit be to be able to instantly destroy tens of thousands of mechanical blue butterflies?
A true big shot.
Hearing Song Ningwan’s words, the team leader quickly used his optical brain to record the blueprint. After a minute, he barely managed to remember the general content.
“This is the internal structure diagram of 001.” Song Ningwan summoned a blueprint in mid-air. “I’ll only give you one minute to memorize it. The surrounding pollutants have been completely cleared. As long as you remember the way you came, you can return to the Underground City by the same route.”
It was simply unbelievable. The team leader suppressed the admiration in his eyes and nodded to thank him. “Thank you, senior.”
“There’s one more thing. Xiaoyu has a bad temper, but he’s not a bad person. Please forgive his rudeness. I apologize to you on his behalf.” The team leader’s tone was sincere. At this moment, they really shouldn’t have been showing off their limited skills in front of an expert.
Song Ningwan remained silent. He released his spirit to scan the surroundings, confirming that there were no obstacles, and nodded.
Big Cat took out a pair of black leather gloves from his backpack, squatted down, and picked up the wings of the blue butterflies on the ground.
These pollutant species couldn’t be touched with bare hands; they had to be isolated from the skin.
Big Cat put down his backpack, opened the zipper, and rummaged through it for a long time, finally taking out a sealed square container. He carefully picked up a mechanical blue butterfly from the ground.
He carefully observed the butterfly wings. The blue phosphorous powder on them had fallen off, and the mechanical skeleton had shattered into powder, the ground looking like it was covered with a blue carpet.
After all, this creature was poisonous; there was no need to sympathize with it.
Randomly picking up a few butterfly corpses, Big Cat sealed the mouth of the container, put it in his backpack, and threw the disposable gloves on the ground.
The gloves that had been contaminated with toxins could no longer be used.
Having done all this, Big Cat walked to the team leader and nodded.
Before leaving, the team leader looked at the mech, as if there was an attachment he couldn’t let go of.
Song Ningwan directly entered the control room, planning his next course of action.
[Master, you have been asleep for a long time. Your spirit is unstable. Do you need to rest?]
“No need, 001.” Song Ningwan paused, still asking the question: “You are obeying Ka’lier’s instructions, right? He did all of this, to help me restore my spirit? No matter how the program is set, I hope you don’t hide anything.”
[Yes, Master. Ka’lier has been preparing for a long time, to bring you back to life.]
“I understand.” Song Ningwan took out the metal heart from his pocket, remaining silent for a long while before lowering his head and kissing it.
Ka’lier not only resurrected Song Ningwan, but also took the opportunity to kill that mind-controlling virus program.
He orchestrated such a grand scheme?
For so long that the years changed…the sun and moon turned.
In the darkness, a faint blue light reflected on Song Ningwan’s face, a glass cover protecting a galaxy of gas, dazzling and radiant.
Beautiful to the point of being breathtaking.
It seemed that one could glimpse the unreachable in the wasteland.
“Did he…leave any words?” Song Ningwan asked softly, his heart pounding, having not experienced such anticipation for a long time.
[Yes, Master. Ka’lier has left you a video. Do you want to enable viewing permissions?]
[Warm reminder: The message video has restricted permissions. It will be completely destroyed after being viewed once.]
Song Ningwan didn’t hesitate at all. “View.”
The video slowly turned on after running for a long time. The white light faded, followed by a breathtaking face appearing inside.
“Teacher, long time no see.”
When Ka’lier recorded the video, he specially chose to do it in the sea of flowers in the villa’s garden, sitting on the swing and swaying slowly.
He touched the ground with his toes, swinging on the swing, and revealed a smile from afar: “Teacher, I don’t know how long it will be until we meet again next time.”
After lamenting, Ka’lier complained again: “Those people from the Political Affairs Office are too annoying. Even though they’re all smiling, they all make me feel disgusted.”
“Teacher, do you know? After you left, I learned how to make chocolate cake. Although it doesn’t taste very good, I read about a kind of romance in a book, hiding a ring inside to give to someone. Do you like that? I really want to give it to you…”
“Teacher, don’t be afraid of loneliness. I made a deal with humans. After a hundred years…you can be resurrected!”
“No! Maybe sooner!”
“Teacher, when we meet again, you will be reborn.”
“There’s one more thing. Teacher’s dearest Ying, he actually poisoned you because of unfounded rumors. Heh, he said you killed his parents and only adopted him for revenge. How utterly hypocritical.” Ka’lier paused. “He’s a blind and heartless thing, Teacher. You pampered him so much, even indulged him to the point of being lawless, and he actually treated you like that. He even didn’t attend your funeral afterwards. I can’t help but find him ridiculous.”
“And Qi Bai is even more of a worthless…”
“Okay, I don’t want to talk about irrelevant people. Teacher, I want to ask, I miss you so much, why are you so cruel and unwilling to come visit me in my dreams?”
The video ended here.
Song Ningwan froze in place, remaining silent for a long time, so long that he forgot himself.
A deal with humans…
And, Qi Bai?
A truly long-forgotten name.
That was the student he took in the year he graduated.
Although Ka’lier rarely saw Qi Bai, the two unexpectedly got along well.
Song Ningwan didn’t think deeply about it. He looked at the dusty control panel, having not personally operated a mech for a long time.
He wondered if he’d be rusty.
In the sky cabin, blue lights flickered in sequence from near to far.
The mighty and imposing aura of the warp drive was magnificent and solemn. This was a giant leap in the development of human machinery since the Ancient Earth Era.
It could be directly connected to the nerves through conductors, controlling the aircraft in the air.
On the other side, inside the healing pod.
Xie Xiaoyu, who had just recovered, came out of the pod, lying on the bed and taking a breath.
He was about to get up when he was startled by his own spiraling white fishtail. His legs had turned into a pure white fishtail, the scales shimmering under the incandescent light, mysterious and beautiful.
!
Xie Xiaoyu subconsciously reached behind his ears. They were breathing fins!
Why did it have to be at this time…